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November 1979

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1979What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  2. 2nd November 1979What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  3. 3rd November 1979Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  4. 4th November 1979Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  5. 5th November 1979What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  6. 6th November 1979Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  7. 7th November 1979In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  8. 8th November 1979Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  9. 9th November 1979Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  10. 10th November 1979What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  11. 11th November 1979How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  12. 12th November 1979How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  13. 13th November 1979Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  14. 14th November 1979What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  15. 15th November 1979What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  16. 16th November 1979Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  17. 17th November 1979Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  18. 18th November 1979What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  19. 19th November 1979In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  20. 20th November 1979What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  21. 21st November 1979In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  22. 22nd November 1979What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  23. 23rd November 1979In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  24. 24th November 1979Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  25. 25th November 1979What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  26. 26th November 1979Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  27. 27th November 1979Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  28. 28th November 1979In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  29. 29th November 1979Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  30. 30th November 1979Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?